Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-05-20
~OUR TREASURE"
Fly ExiI.A WHEELER WILCOX.

ure. breathed deep, soulstirrias
sigh.
81 could weep--positively weep"
said, "and think tears at this iunc5.
ure OF our domestic life would not be
unmanly."
''Are you making sport of me2''
queried Evelyn, my wife, sternly.
"No, far be it from my thoughts to
intrude any levity upon an occasion
of this kind" ! responded gravely,
latter the .leartrending, blood.cur-
ding, hair-bleaching and purse-reduc'
ing experiences which we have under.
gonesince the day we flew from the ills oil
boarding house life to those we knew
not OF; or, in other words, when we
jumped from the frying pan into the fire
Ito use classic quotation-and be-
gan to study the momentousgir ques-
ton OF the day, with at leastfourteen
bellies OF the kitchen asspecimens, ]
will leave it to any unprecedented per
son to say, il it is not an occasion for
tears, sweet tears, when / hear my
wife announce that our fifteenth &C
QUESTION ls n treasure"
"That sentence was as long as
1.-THE list OF our numerous hired girls
deficiencies, ! ventured, as my wife
hesitated for comparison, "for, as
II psychological historical long lane
that has no turn, which | began to
think we had found. my dear; lane
in which we were driven straight ahead,
over ghasms and powders, by an
army OF merciless and unrelenting do
mestics, eaeh armed with some dis
tinctive, and destructive, and purely
indivi lual vice.
'Vice. john" repeated my wife, who
Is very choice in her selection OF words;
IL think you mean faults, dear, not
vices. That is not nice word to ap-
ply to II womanl and you must re-
member that all those girls, dreadful
rs they proved to be, /. were women
like myself.
"Were they?" | cried "were they,
indeed Evelyn?" and | laughed u
wild and think mocking laugh, as
continued nave oeen iaoorihS uh-
ger the impression thaO they were
he'ti'er men nor women nelther
ue"st nor huliat' pu1 were ehouis'
II you announce them 10 ne women
like yourself, Evelyn. | must believe /
W's ''listaNen' eitHet III my FORMER
impression OF them, or my present inn
preston OF you"
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farer treasure TO place her side by
sue WIN 'uoso sIlil anu slaSeiE cpea,
lures VINO Drought us suGh hours Oh
misSiy' bosV reh'emoer iiahhah;
! uosr respoliaeu ENeiyn. IaiUiig
INTO my Vein' as she Always qua soon
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| aSset. ION tnat as the husband, so
the wle Is,
- dost' but she dldnt. she seorned
such mental duties and sougth Tor her
true sphere between the tattered COW
els OF dime novels, while the dish wa
ter grew cold with despair waiting to
be used.
but finally she got up and busted
because you complained, did shenot?"
IL